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The story of George Lucas' self-financed, $100 million affordable housing project on his own land in Marin County, California, is so great you can't believe it. Described as "workforce housing," the 224 apartments would be available to households earning $66,000 to $101,000 a year, NPR's Marketplace reported Friday, before interviewing nice Lucas Valley Homeowners Association people who lamented the loss of the fields upon which they once rode their horses, etc. The back story, according to the radio piece, was a battle over affordable housing that began three years ago, which the show illustrated with an audio clip from a meeting where residents literally used the...

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